We Butter the Bread with Butter
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We Butter the Bread with Butter is a German band from Lübben
Lübben (Spreewald)
Lübben is a town of 14,800 people, capital of the Dahme-Spreewald district in the Lower Lusatia region of Brandenburg, Germany.-Administrative structure:Districts of the town are:...

. Founded in 2007 by Marcel Neumann. Their debut album Das Monster aus dem Schrank
Das Monster aus dem Schrank
Das Monster aus dem Schrank is the debut album by German deathcore duo We Butter the Bread with Butter...

was released on November 21, 2008 through Redfield Records. Their second album, Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging
Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging
Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging is the second album by German deathcore band, We Butter the Bread with Butter. It was released on May 14, 2010 through Redfield Records.- Track listing :-Personnel:...

was released May 14, 2010. We Butter the Bread with Butter originally started as duo, but during the summer of 2010, three members have been inducted into the ensemble, assuming the requirements of a full band.

Background

We Butter the Bread with Butter was founded in 2007 by Marcel Neumann, who was originally the guitarist for Martin Kesici
Martin Kesici
Martin Kesici is a German-Turkish singer and songwriter. He was born to a German mother and a Turkish father. After becoming Star Search-Winner at German TV station Sat.1 in 2003, his first solo single, "Angel of Berlin" entered the German Chart at number one...

's band, and Tobias Schultka. We Butter the Bread with Butter was originally meant as a joke, but progressed into being a more serious musical duo. Many of their songs from this point were covers of German folk tales
German folklore
German folklore shares many characteristics with Scandinavian folklore and English folklore due to their origins in a common Germanic mythology. It reflects a similar mix of influences: a pre-Christian pantheon and other beings equivalent to those of Norse mythology; magical characters associated...

 and nursery rhyme
Nursery rhyme
The term nursery rhyme is used for "traditional" poems for young children in Britain and many other countries, but usage only dates from the 19th century and in North America the older ‘Mother Goose Rhymes’ is still often used.-Lullabies:...

s. On the "Infiziert-Tour 2008" (German
German language
German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

: 'Infected-Tour 2008') they performed together with the German metalcore
Metalcore
Metalcore is a subgenre of heavy metal combining various elements of extreme metal and hardcore punk. The name is a portmanteau of the names of the two genres. The term took on its current meaning in the mid-1990s, describing bands such as Earth Crisis, Deadguy and Integrity...

 band Callejon
Callejon (band)
Callejon is a German metalcore band founded in Düsseldorf, Germany in 2002. The band writes and sings the majority of their lyrics in German.- History :...

 and the post-hardcore
Post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

 band, The Parachutes in major cities in Germany such as Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

, Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...

, Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...

 and Stuttgart
Stuttgart
Stuttgart is the capital of the state of Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany. The sixth-largest city in Germany, Stuttgart has a population of 600,038 while the metropolitan area has a population of 5.3 million ....

 and furthermore opened for A Day to Remember
A Day to Remember
A Day to Remember is an American rock band from Ocala, Florida. Founded in 2003 by guitarist Tom Denny and drummer Bobby Scruggs, the band has released four studio albums, nine singles and eight music videos...

 multiple times. After that, both members turned to the production of their second full-length album, Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging
Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging
Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging is the second album by German deathcore band, We Butter the Bread with Butter. It was released on May 14, 2010 through Redfield Records.- Track listing :-Personnel:...

, which was released on May 14, 2010 in Germany, the USA and Japan. During the production of the album, three new musicians joined WBTBWB with Kenneth Iain Duncan now being the second guitarist, Maximilian Pauly Saux playing the bass and Can Özgünsür as drummer.

Tobias Schultka, vocalist and founding member of We Butter the Bread with Butter when the group was a duo, parted ways with the band in June 2010. The reason stated was because he wanted to focus into being an application developer for Apple Inc.. Schultka is found on multiple websites and is known for his company and production of his iPhone game, Happy Chewing Gum. Schultka has since been replaced by Paul Bartzsch.

Band name

The name for the band has no particular meaning, although its origins were suggested from when the two original members were driving in a car operated by Marcel Neumann and an accident almost occurred. Neumann found Schultka "so funny that he briefly lost control of the vehicle.".

Members

Current members
  • Marcel "Marci" Neumann – lead guitar
    Lead guitar
    Lead guitar is a guitar part which plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs within a song structure...

     (2007–present), bass guitar
    Bass guitar
    The bass guitar is a stringed instrument played primarily with the fingers or thumb , or by using a pick....

    , rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar
    Rhythm guitar is a technique and rôle that performs a combination of two functions: to provide all or part of the rhythmic pulse in conjunction with singers or other instruments; and to provide all or part of the harmony, ie. the chords, where a chord is a group of notes played together...

     (2007-2010)
  • Kenneth Iain Duncan – rhythm guitar (2010–present)
  • Maximilian Pauly Saux – bass guitar (2010–present)
  • Can Özgünsür – drums
    Drum kit
    A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....

     (2010–present)
  • Paul Bartzsch - vocals
    Singing
    Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...

     (2010–present)


Former Members
  • Tobias "Tobi" Schultka – vocals (2007-2010), drums, programing (2007-2010)

Discography

  • Das Monster aus dem Schrank
    Das Monster aus dem Schrank
    Das Monster aus dem Schrank is the debut album by German deathcore duo We Butter the Bread with Butter...

    (2008, Redfield)
  • Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging
    Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging
    Der Tag an dem die Welt unterging is the second album by German deathcore band, We Butter the Bread with Butter. It was released on May 14, 2010 through Redfield Records.- Track listing :-Personnel:...

    (2010, Redfield)
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